Our Prevent Duty

As part of Bedale Primary School's ongoing safeguarding and child protection duties we are fully behind the government's Prevent Strategy.

From 1 July 2015 all schools have been subject to a duty under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. This duty is known as the Prevent Duty for Schools.

At Bedale Primary School we build pupils’ promote fundamental British values and give them the skills to enable them to challenge radical views. You can read about what we do to promote British values by clicking the British Values pencil on the left.

The statutory guidance refers to the importance of Prevent awareness training to equip staff to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and to challenge extremist ideas. All our staff have received online training on what Prevent is about and how to deal with any issues they may see inside or outside school. The following staff have also completed Home Office WRAP (Workshop to raise awareness of prevent) training